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I 1 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS, TUESDAY, MARCH 21. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to Lord Wellington's Annuity Bill, to the Mutiny Bill, and to 17 Road, Inclosure, - and other pr,rate.Bills. • The Commi,sioners were, the Lord Archbishop, of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Wal. Bingham. the Bills on the table were forwarded each a stage, and some public Papers werc. , presented, IRISH CATHOLICS. Lord CLIFDEN, after a prefatory speech, wherein he spoke of the hardships which the Catholics of Ireland undergo, presented a Petition from those of that persuasiotr, .inhabitants of the County of Car- - , low. His Lordship stated, that he was the more emboldened to introduce this Petition from the sane= Lion which, he-was given to understand, was afford ed to it from those who held, or recently held, the highest official situations in the Government of Ire -1 Be thlit as it may, said the Noble Lord, the Pet;lion stands upon the firm footing of natural right, and it best and most eloquently spoke its own 'merits. As the day would shortly arrive when these merits would be best and most seasonably discussed, he would on the present occasion refrain from offer-' ing any more to their Lordship's consideration, than merely, That this Petition do lie on the table. Tire question being put, Lord REDESDALE assured the Noble Lord, that no person, in or out of Parliament, had the interest, the real interest and welfare of the Catholic of subjc&s more ardently• at heart than those per sonages who composed his Majesty's Government. But he availed himself of this occasion to say, that the san&ion asserted to be given to this Petition, " by persons holding high situations in his Majes ty's Government," must be founded in error. In dividuals having place in the Castle of Dublin, and holding forth e!;couraging language on such topics, were not be considered - in the light which the No ble Lord would haye them considered. He had no objection, however,-to the reception of the Petition, It was accordingly received, and ordered to lie on the table, after a few observations in reply from Lord Redesdale, DEBTOR AND CREDITOR. Lord REDESDALE, in pursuance of the promise which he made last year, presented a Bill, which was read a first time, for regulating the law between Debtor and Creditor, as Par as the same relates to arrest, and to the imprisonment of the person. It was ordered to be printed.—Adjounied. HOUSE OF COMMOiVS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH Q. Mr. , QUARMB, the Deputy Usher of the Black Rdd, informed the House, that his Majesty had given his Royal Assent to several Public and Private Bills, and that he was ordered to summon the Hour.e of Commons to attend in the House of Peers, and bnay the Commission read. 4. Lit L./x6A}.ER, ksttc,m4eu then went to the Howe of Peers, and heard the Commission read.—[See - our Report to the House of Lords.] The SPEAKER then returned, ao'd informe.d. the House of the different Bills to which the Royal As sent had been given. •The Hampstead Burial Ground was toad a second time. The Legal - Quays Bill ,vas read a third time, and passed. , , The SECRETARY at 'WAR presented a variety -of Papers from his Office, in obedience to the Order of the House, • , • 1 , M'r. LUSHSNGTON brought up t h e Report of the Expiring Law Bill, which was read a second.tirne. A, Message from the Lords informed the HoUse, that their Lordships- had agreed to theM,ast Impor tation Bill, the Whale Fishery Bill, the Sugar lotinty Bill, - and several Private Bills. ' - Th? Exchequer Bills Funding Bill _was read a third tithe, and passed. ' ..Mr. FoSTER moved, that it be referred' to. a Corn mittee to cons der of the Expenditure upon Holy head and Howth Harbours, and to report what further sums may be necessary to, expend upon them. Ordered. The Irish Corn and Provision Bill was read a third time. , , . . Thb SECRETARY at WAR presented a Return of the Sick and Womided In the Army of Lord Wel lington, and several other Military Documents; in obedience to the Order of the House. 'Mr; MexweLL.,moved for a Return of the Sick end Wounded belonging t,o the different Regiments employed in the Expedition to the Scheidt, up to the 17th of "February Mr. LONG had i no objeaion to promote what he .believed to bathe objea of the Honourable Gentle, man's motion ' • but he begged it - might be under stood, that all those_ who might appear uon the sick list at that , period could not be considered to have contraacd their disorders upon the Expedition, as a portion of every regiment was always sick - ,- as ;might be ascertained by moving for a similar return• made by the same, regiments at the same time last year, or any preceding period. -; The motion was then agreed to. _ , The Report of the Irish Distillery Bill,was brought up, and ordered_to.be engrossed, with an additional clause proposed by Mr. Foster. _ Lord MAnor4 moved for a Return of all Persons ' employed in the Collection of the Revenue at King , Ston-np i oti-Hull, alter the paising of the 4c.1 47,th of his present Maj(-sty, with their respe6ive .and the compensations which had been Judd...! 'td shem since the passing of that Act, iti lieu of fees. Mr. TaostPsoN supported the motion, anti hoped that something should be done to relieve .those 'lgor Mun, as tkey were wry, unfit persons to ,colleca the _Revenue at present, from the circumstanceot many of them having, xith,in the last year,' 4plied,to the Workhouse for relief, their 'salary,and compensation for' fees being. inadequate for their. own support, and that of their, families. The motion was then agreed to; and the Hou , ,e Adjourned., - . • Attit;vin—t Dublin, 3 Waterford. Duz----3 Gottcnbutgb, z it Lisbon, t t2oiliz, i Warcrford. L 0 N 1) 0 N. THURSDAY, MARCH f2e2, Islo. Letters from the Mediterranean state, that a Bri tish squadron, une.r, the command of Sir SAMUEL HQoD, has passed the Dardanelles, in.order to a& against Russia in the Black Sea. We shall be happy to bear of such a change in the Council.; -of Russia as will render hostilities . against her unnecessary ; but if that change does not take place, we trust that effeEtUal means will be taken to make the Emr , ..caoa of Russia feel the clanger of provoking the hostility of Great Britain, The American frigite the John Adams does not sail from Cowes till to-morrow. The departure of this,vessel has bgeh delayed, in order that she might carry over to the American Government the result of the negociations between the Marquis WELLEs- LEY and Mr. PINCKNEY. We shall now have an opportunity of ascertaining the real intentions of the American Government, beyond the possibility of a doubt. The John Adams will carry out to Arne-, rica intelligence of the new outra , es committed by BUONAPARTE against the property of American subjeaS, wherever it mil be found ; and also the amicable arrangement settled between - the Marquis WELLESLEY and Mr. PINeKNEY. If the American Government reject the latter, and still manifest a disposition to submit to every injury and every insult that BUONAPARTE may choose to heap upon them, all attempt at negociation on our part witl:be useless. We trust, however, that the last a& of violence which BUONAPARTE has thought proper to adopt, will open the eyes of those men in Ame rica who are even most attached to France, and convince theM that no concession 'on their part , short of absolute submisSion, will satisfy the T; rant of France, and that they must make up their mind, either to be his sassals or his enemies. It is re ported that the John Adams' is to call at a French port, in order 'to convey General ARMSTRONG to America. This we doubt. Whatever disposition Mr. ArtmsTitolso s may have to wish to leave France, h e will, in a ll pr o bability, wait for dispatches from hpfnr,. ho. resolves upon SO deci sive a step. Yesterday Paris Papers to the 1 I tlx arrived, but they contain no news"whatever. -We read, hoiv ever, with extreme regret, an article in one of them, hich states, that ail tikel Tyrolese who l3ad fled to Vienna have been orftred to withdraw, and, that some of them had even been arrested. We hove for the honour of humpn nature, that this state ... ment is not true;. such an act would disgrace the Emperor cif Austria, even more ( than the sacrifice of his daughter to BUoN*LARTE. o. • ,The Dutch still indulge a hope ;that they will - not be incorporated with France.. Some Letters that were yesterday received from Holland• state, that the people were in daily expectation - of the return of Louis JhroNArAarn ; other accounts say, than the Archduke CHARLES is to be the new King of Hol- , land.• This latter speculatioti is .qUite absurd.-- BuoNAran•re, we areconvinced, will never suffer the House of Austria to obtain any power in that part of Europe. • A Cartel arrived at 'Plymouth on Tuesday lat.— She brought no intelligence. Some English ladies came passengers in, her. The Opposition Papers, with their usual candour, are beginning to anticipate the result of the Debate upon LOrd pollen ESTER'S Moilon j but the language *they use is not very respe6tful, either to.the House of Commons, or to the Party which they are so anxious to support. It is not very decent, after the House of CoMmons has been engaged in so long and ardnous an investigaiionrespe6ting ,the Walche ren Expedition, to insinuate that the Members will sutrer-their condu6t or judgment, upen the merits of that measure, o be governed merely by party feelings. It is not very Civil to the Gentkmen who compose the 'Opposition to style them upon this . oecasion,'as they. ate styled by their oun friends, a corn- . lined phalanx." A combined phalanx, to do what? to examine patiently, and to decide impartially upon the condth of those who planned and those who 'nio,execution that Expeditioul Suppose ,a Court of Inquiry had been appointed to.examine into the conduct of the Comtnander oftheWalche:- rill Expedition,: what opinion should we fOrni,of the judgment of that Court, if we were told before-hand that a pert of its Members' were a combined phafartr, determined to condemn ?-=-. We " are . quite . convinced that• this epithet does trot apply to the Gentlemen usually denomi nated the Opposition in the house of Com mons: we are. only-.. regretting that any of their friends should be at the same time so indis creet` -and so unkind as to apply it to them. This indiscretion is the more apparent from the con cluding passage of the paragraph to 'which we are alluding. It expresses a hope that the result of this investigation will be,!that " his Majesty will call to his Councils the 'men whose councils would have the cordial support of the people," meaning there by, of course,' the present Opposition. Now, ' this wish, of the sincerity of which we are are most thoroughly convinced, throws some light upoil the expressio , J which we have just noticed. A cothbined phalanx to examine minutely, and de- • cide fairly upon the conduct of others, is a contra- dietion in terms ; but it combined plialanx, attempt ing to,force itself into office, is a very intelligible ex pression. Any person not thoroughly acquainted with the pure and patriotic motives by which the, Opposition are influenced,. might be inclined to think, from this injudicious language of their friends, that they had formed themselves into a combined phalanx., not to promote the public good, but to force themselves into place; an imputation so cruel and so unjust, that we feel ourselves bound in can dour to exonerate them fromit. Yesterday, about twelve o'clbck; the KING, QUEN, Princesses AUGUSTA and ELIZABETH, arriv ed at the Queen's Palace, from Windsor, where they were received by the Dukes of Cum a ERLA:43, KENT, and CA;I.BRIDGE. SoOn after two o'clock his MAJESTY held a Private Levee, which was attended by The Archbishop of York, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of - the Treasury and Chancellor of t he Exchequer, the •First Lord el the Admiralty, the Secretaries of State t'or the Fo reign and Colonial Department, the President of the Board of Controul, the Lieut.. Ceneral of the Ordnance, the Corn, manier in Chief, the lodge Advocate, their Excellencies the American, Port ugues:, Sardinian, Spanish, Hessian, Swedish, the two Sicilies, and Turkish Ambassadors ; the Duke of, Montrose, the Earl of Harrowhy, Sir S. Cottrell and Went. worth, Adm. Sir C.-Cotton, Generals triworth, Champagne, and Sir T. Rigge, Colonel Rigby, Major Wilby, Captain Stanfell, Dr. kellowes, and Messrs. Brown, Suerricre, and Owen. The following had the honour. of being presented. to iliS MAJESTY _ Fellows, M. 11. upon his . going to the army at Cadiz, upon whieh occasion he received the honour of Knighthood. • Major.Gcnefal Sir Samuel Auchmuty, on his promotion, and upon I.is departure for Madras. Sir (ohn Wentworth, upon his_retnrn from Nova Scotia. Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, on his being appointed to the command in the Mediterranean. ' Colonel Rigby, upon hiS ;)romotion to the command of tke East Essex Regiment of Militia. Mr. Donis 'Browne, to thank his Majesty for the ribband of St. Patrick given to the Marquis of Sligo. 13rigadier-General tioworth,. lately .r.oin Spain, and now the irovid Artillery, under Major Wilby, Aid-de-Camp to Lieut.-General Sir Gebrge PeCkyyith, K. B Upon hiS arrival from the Wcrt Indies with • dispatches, announcing'ttre capture 01 the Islam' ot G tiada : loupe, and.his promotion. The Rev. Mr. 0 wen, Archdeacon of Richmond, on being appointeil Chaplain-Geucral to the Forces. Capt. Stanfell, R.N. . on bit.; arrival from the West Indies, with the dispatches of the capture ot the Island of Guadit lcupe, and his promotion. Le Chevalier de Begetra Nornme, Envoy Extraordinary at Munich, Plenipotentiary .from Portugal at the Court of Pe tersburgh, by the Portuguese Ambassador. .Major-General Champagne, on his being appointed Colo nel to the 4 tst Regiment. Mr. Suerteire, by the Portuguese Ambassador. ' Le COmmandeur Braamcamp d'Alineida, by the Portu. guese Ambassador. Commandeur A. T. Braamcamp, by the Portuguese Ambassador. , Yesterday at half-past one o'clock, her MAJESTY accompaniBd by their 'Royal Highnesses Princesses AUGUSTA and ELIZABETH, proceeded in his Royal Highness die Duke of York's carriage- from the Queen's-Palace, and paid a visit to the Collniess of AYLESBURY, in Seymonr-street; from. whence they returned , to the. Duke of ,York's house, Stable-yard, St. James's, w here , ' they were received by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of YORK, the Dukes of KENT, CUMBERLAND, and' CAMBBIDGE. At three o'clock they sat down to an elegant collation prepared on the occasion, and at a - little after five o'clock, the QUEEN and PRlNcEsses set out in their travelling carriage, attended by their usual escort, fur Winthor. . Yesterday his MAJESTY held a Privy Council, and give audiences to the LORO CHANCELLOR, the Mar quis *WELLESLEY, Earls CAMDEN, WESMOKLAND, and LIVEkrOOL ; Lord MULGRAVE, Sir DAVID DUNDAS, Mt. PERCEVAL, and Mr. S. MANNERS, the last of _whom laid before his MAJESTY the pro ceedings of some Courts Martial. . Yesterday the Chancellor of the ttchequer gave a grand Cabinet dinner,. at his house in Downing street. Lord Put:CHESTER, we understand, means to move three' Resolutions relative to the late Expedi= tion on Monday next - . The first goes to declare the expedition itself impolitic ; the second censures the retention of the Mattel of Walcheren, after the ulterior objects of the . expedition had been found to be unattainable; the third, it is said, relates to the appointment of the Earl of CHATHAM. • • 'bast week 'an extraordinary occurrence took place 'in the river Eden, near Drumbrugh. Christopher Robinson, an experienced ii,herman, placed a floun der net in that part of the river which is subjed to the flux and reflux,of the tide, and on his returning to drag his net from the river, instead of finding fish, he found it loaded with wild ducki. Duri n g his absence . a flight of wild decks had alighted be loW the net, and on the flowing of the tide they were carried, from the contraction of the channel, with great impetuosity, by the' water into-the net, got entangled, and were drowned. In si4 tides he caught. 170 golden-eyed wind ducks,. supposed to be from the Orkneys, as none of that species• is ever seet\ in that part of the country. An Opposition Paper of-this morning, with very great naivete`, expresses- its 'surprize at Lord MEL-. conduit. The Paper sayi, he Is out of office, and yet is employed in drawing plans, for his, country'p good.. • PRICE 0) 7 STnel.;g THIS DAY AT O'CLOCK. Calsols THE SU N. 1-01-El,l QUIS DICERS VALSCNI AUDEAT? NAVAL NEWS PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 21. —Came in this day his Majesty's ships Pallas and Dexterous from a cruiZe• Sailed his Majesty's ships Sabrina and Zenabia on a cruize ; and the Mary,. GRAY, and William, SPICER, for. Sunderland. His Majesty's ship Hope taken convoy to the Downs. DEAL, MARCH 2 1 .—Came down from the River the Cirencester East Indianian, Capt. HALKET, and sailed again for the Westward ; Retecca for the South Seas; Joseph for St. Vincent's ;_ and the "Inn for Bermuda. • Arrived the Castilian, CREATOR, and Bloodhound' sloop of war, from a cruize. X Letter from an Officer on board one of the ships belonging to Lord COLLINGWOOD'S Fleet, states, that his Lordship was cruizing off Barcelona, in the beginning of February, with 17 sail of the line, and three frigates. In the• early pia ofJa. nuary, a tremendous storm visited the coast of the Island of Minorca, and was severely felt by some ships of war which were then upon that station, A Moorish ship of 2 2 guns, was driven.on the rocks: and sunk in the. arsenal—,and a felucca which had been driven across the hawse of the Alceste frigate, drifted on shore and went to pieces, and every soul on board perished. Three transports were forced on shore and much injured. An American brig was dismasted and laid on •her beam ends. The Bulwark, Alceste, and Spartan, drifted, but fortu nately brought up again. .The escape of the Grass hopper was almost miraculous. She struck on the point of land S. W. of the arsenal, bUt a sea lifted her over it, and she suffered very little damage. The enemy's fleet in. Toulon consisted of ' , eleven sail of the line; and positive information had beers given to Lord COLLINGWOOD, that'it would hazard. every thing to attempt the relief of Barcelona, where the French Garrison was starving, The distress was. similar in Fort Mont Juy which com mands the city. The Catalonians had totally cut off the communication With the country. Yesterday a Court of .Directors was held at the East India House, when Lieutenant-General Sir SAMUEL ,AUCHMUTY took the usual oaths, On hii , being appointed Commander'in Chief and Second its Council at Fort St. George. Sir SAMUEL and Suite aftewards dined with the Direaors, at the City of London Tavern.--The under-mentioned Comman^ dens took leave, previous to departing for their rem spective destinations, viz. ' Captain A. HAMILTON' , Bombay, Captain A. GLEDSTANES, Royal George, China dire 1. The Court adjourned at six o'clock • till to-morrow. Four of the transports, with drivers and artillery on board, which sailed from Cove on the 28th ult. under convoy of the Princess Charlotte for Lisbon, have put back, after receiving great damage. A Gentleman has arrived in town wilo left France last week. He had i ttaveitect from ,D.nthic to the Rhine, and from thence to Havre de Grace by land. His information relative to Germanysupplies us with nOthingsiew. With repea to the. state of France, he says, that in all thp great' towns, not only tha luxuries, ha the ordinary indulgencies of the tables are withdrawn; yet, that 'the common, means of subsistence are , cheap- and abundant, - The males pansisted, only of the two extremes,. of childhood and old age • all those in the intermediate periods of' life having been sent off to the armies; and women composetr the great mass ot Atte busy and aaive Oat of the community. • The officer alluded to in onr paper of Tuesday, as having made three unsuccessful attempts to escape from France, and or the last occasion liberated soingli prisoners, .is named ARABIN. He was not on hill parole at any period when he attempted to make , • his escape. Some accounts have been received . from Spain, .by the wa, of Oporto, whiCh are calculated to elk*. courage hopes that we fear will not be realised.--SIC is saki * that tile Trench, by precipitately advancing into . the Soot hern,distriets of Andalusia, have.plaCed themsoVes in a very critical situation ; that the 0 1 "; tiyes are in arms in. the Cordillera; or chains o f mountains, behind them, and that They will be' destroyed, uoles's they. seek for safety in a precipi' tate flight. • INDIA.---The Expedition from Bombay against . the pirates in ih:r Persian Galph, it appears by the last accounts from Bombay, sailed about 1311 1 ° t : i•ttlt of September. It misisted of the 65th regl: ment, and about two hund re d N at i ve i n f antry , 3,Vhicti . it is - feared, was 'not adequate to the objet, under s contemplation. This apprehension is increase(PbY the circumstance of the,loss'of the St rombolo, bomb' vessel, which carried part of the irOops destined Q . this service. The troops and crew, we are hapPY to state, were all ,saved. The pirates bad been for some time represented to be in great, focal having at least'one hundred wont dows, large open boats, capable of carryi n g . 2oo men each-; and, fd! the most part, supplied with guns .of heavy metals By the intelligence from the M a l a b ar C o a s t, it op pears that MEEK KHAN had collected a force, amoUnting, according to some of the letters, t° 25,000 Cavalry; and 40,000 . infantry,— with wbicl, ► he appeared' before Bopal, at the end.Of the mont h , of July. Set NDIA'S main army is said to have taltell, Up a central Position in Hindustan. In consequence of, an applitation front his Persian Majesty, an order had 'been communicated to- the Bombay Govern' 'nem, for a sucvly r.?l '16;000 stand of arms, and suitable 'proportion of artillery, and for. seleeting o f : proper Staff to accompany them, for the purpose 0.. officering and disciplining the corps, in whose hap d g the-arms Were to be placed. Prepitratiods were i,! O . great forwardness for etfeding the objects of th ll communication. • • • - Tkie General Catholic Committee of IrelaPcfhav -s adjourned to the 24th of April and special notic e are issued for tlrir meeting in Dublin on that claii in order to take into consideration the propriety D d . disavowing, on the part of the Catholic Body, aF.t authorising an offer in. Parliament to concede P.‘. rkto, or any similar Measure. II II 1 i. { 1.